Re: RFC: Port of NetBSD cat(1)'s -f option.

On 2002-05-16 15:23, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, now I don't know what to think - for the past few months,
> I have been writing my own programs with explicit checks for -1.
> Is there an OS out there that returns negative values other than -1?
> I presume that no *new* OS and no new syscalls will be written to
> return such, so no further incompatibility would be introduced;
> but is there an existing platform that would break programs which
> check explicitly for -1?

I'm not sure.  The < 0 check is almost hardwired in my fingers,
because of a few years of writing it this way.  Just trying to be on
the safe side of the world, I guess.

- Giorgos


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